Example sentences of "[verb] me like [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But please , Mama , Lucinda pleaded silently , do n't treat me like a complete idiot . |
| 2 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 4 | Do n't treat me like a naughty schoolgirl . |
| 5 | ‘ Is n't that why you 've avoided me like the very plague ever since I 've been here ? ’ |
| 6 | You ca n't just discard me like an empty cigarette packet . |
| 7 | It was confusing : such self-attention repelled me , and yet it represented a world of sensuality , of smell and touch , of indulgence and feeling , which aroused me like an unexpected caress as I undressed , lit the candles and got into the bath in this room of Eva 's . |
| 8 | You must stop treating me like a naughty girlfriend , for I am neither the one nor the other . |
| 9 | She wrote in the card : ‘ Thanks for treating me like a human being . |
| 10 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 11 | He clutched me like a terrified child waking from a nightmare . |
| 12 | But he treated me like a little girl ; part of his training , I suppose . ’ |
| 13 | Summoning up all my courage , I entered San Esteban and its overpowering gilded Churriguera altar seemed to welcome me like a long-lost friend as I dipped my hand in the holy-water stoup at the door and knelt to pray in front of Claudio Coello 's heavenly blue painting . |
| 14 | My eyes fail me like every other part of my body . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 16 | His eyes glassy with boredom , he greeted me like a drowning man clutching at a lifebelt . |
| 17 | His face was scarlet and twisted with hate and he began to attack me like a wild animal . |